By contrast, our March 2018 Elliott Wave Theorist looked at the big picture for risk assets, which appeared quite precarious, and said:

There will be nowhere to hide except cash.

Five months later, the August Elliott Wave Financial Forecast reiterated:

One of the best investments, in our opinion, is also the safest: cash.

Yet, the prevailing sentiment was the opposite at the time, as this chart and commentary from our December Elliott Wave Financial Forecast show:

This chart showing the percentage of Rydex assets held in money market funds relative to bullish equity funds captures the historic contrariness of our August assessment. On September 5, the percentage fell to 0.11%... The only other comparable reading was also 0.11%, on July 14, 2000, after which a bear market cut the value of the S&P 500 index in half by late 2002.

Now, after stocks broke a few December records and the S&P 500 officially fell into bear-market territory, we have this 2018 investment summation from CNBC (Dec. 21):

Nothing worked for investors this year -- nearly every major asset class is in the red for 2018.

Cash in the form of money market funds is the only asset that... had a decent positive return in 2018.

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